illation — noun /ɪˈleɪʃən/ a) the act of inferring or concluding , 1974: Adriaan moved to Pierce’s American illation whereby an if begets a therefore, event by event, the javelin’s flight issuing from the web of contingencies in which we may locate the… … Wiktionary

illation — (Roget s Thesaurus II) noun A position arrived at by reasoning from premises or general principles: conclusion, deduction, illative, inference, judgment. See REASON … English dictionary for students